A very large percentage of the questions that we get on #apache deal
with virtual hosts, and a large number of people say that they have
tried to figure out what to do from the documentation, and could not
find what they needed.
A couple comments:
- Most people want to do simple name-virtual hosting.
- 50% of all name-virtual hosting problems that I see are solved by using the "*" format of NameVirtualHost/<VirtualHost>. (People don't seem to know the IP address of their own server.)
- Another 10% are people who just don't have their DNS configured at all correctly to map requests to their webserver. There is only so far the docs can go in helping with this.
- Another 10% are people who start off with only a single host, and then try to add a virtual host using a single <virtualhost> section, and can't figure out why their original host doesn't work. This is explained very explicitly in name-based.html, but perhaps the explanation needs to be moved up higher.
I think all of your ideas are good, with the exception of removing the mod_rewrite mass-virtual hosting. There are some situations which mod_vhost_alias can't handle, and I believe that there are still quite a few people doing mod_rewrite virtual hosting for that reason. If you want to make that section less prominent, that is fine with me.
Joshua.
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